Air Emissions and Healthcare Recommendations - Theo Colborn, PhD

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http://psehealthyenergy.org/SUPPORT. Learn more about how you can help support PSE Healthy Energy by clicking on the link above. Continuing Medical Education (CME) Activity Jointly Sponsored by Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy and the Medical Society of the State of New York. If you wish to receive credit for this activity please access the learning modules through the following web site: http://www.psehealthyenergy.org/COURSES Educational Objectives: This lecture will focus on the potential for air pollution from natural gas operations, including toxic volatile chemicals that surface with methane and possible routes of exposure. It will also cover the need for disclosure by the natural gas industry and options for professionals who want to get involved in the issue. At the end of this course the viewer should be aware of the: 1. Equipment and how it is used to extract and deliver natural gas to your homes 2. Collateral effects on communities and individuals 3. Symptoms reported by workers and people living near gas operations 4. Reasons for the lack of public policy for government oversight of the industry, and in light of this 5. Options for professionals wanting to get involved Theo Colborn, an environmental health analyst, has published and lectured extensively on the effects of chemicals known as endocrine disruptors and their implications for human and wildlife health. Her work has led to major changes in health policy not only in the US but also abroad. She has served as an advisor to the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US State Department's International Joint Commission, Environment Canada, Health Canada, the US Department of the Interior, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and similar government agencies in Europe and Japan. She directed World Wildlife Fund's Wildlife and Contaminants Program before returning to her home in Colorado, in 2002. In 2003 she established TEDX (The Endocrine Disruption Exchange), a non-profit group in Paonia, CO, whose mission is to provide objective, technical information about toxic chemicals to scientists, policy makers, grass-roots and support groups, the media, and the public. In 1985, Dr. Colborn was awarded a Fellowship from the Office of Technology Assessment, US Congress. She held a Chair for three years, starting in 1990, with the W. Alton Jones Foundation, and in 1993 was given a three-year Pew Fellows Award. Among her awards are the 1997 Chatham College Rachel Carson Award, the 1999 Norwegian International Rachel Carson Prize, the 2000 International Blue Planet Prize, the 2003 Society of Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry's Rachel Carson Award, the 2004 Center for Science in the Public Interest's Rachel Carson Award, the 2006 Beyond Pesticides Dragonfly Award, the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council for Science and the Environment, TIME magazine's 2007 Environmental Heroes Award, and the 2008 Swedish Goteborg Award. She has a BS in pharmacy from Rutgers University in New Jersey, an MA in fresh water ecology from Western State College of Colorado, and a PhD in zoology with distributed minors in epidemiology, toxicology, and water chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Financial Disclosure Statement: Dr. Theo Colborn has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.